[sinkspur]

the differance is those militia groups are sunshine warriors trying to cheat on their taxes, they were not sociopaths prepared to die to get out of filing a tax return

You don't give a sociopath the opportunity to turn into a psychopath.

Howell jogged, he went into town, and he was on good terms with the McLennan County sheriff.

But an obscure Texas sheriff arresting a guy who had stockpiled bunches of guns and who owed taxes wouldn't have been very glamorous, would it?

For the life of me, I don't know why the federal government didn't use local resources to resolve this problem.

Howell wasn't a menace to society; he was just a small-time loser with a bunch of pathetic saps gathered around him with no life.

[nanny]

But an obscure Texas sheriff arresting a guy who had stockpiled bunches of guns and who owed taxes wouldn't have been very glamorous, would it? For the life of me, I don't know why the federal government didn't use local resources to resolve this problem.

As a very sweet black lady that I used to know and loved very much would say , "I 'no 'ats right!!"

Do you remember the neat little tobacco chewing Texan that brought in the 'railroad killer'?

[_Jim]

     Howell wasn't a menace to society;

Well - he was going to sleep with the wrong man's 10 year old daughter (I *saw* the ABC special with Charlie Gibsonb the other night) at some point -

- maybe that's why Vernon Wayne "RAPIST" Howell was heavily into firarems ...

[skinkinthegrass]

Didn't one of the ATF Agents call this operation "SHOWTIME" ?...in reference to the media.